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Swype input on messaging widget quick-text

Hopefully this hasn't been noted already. I use the stock messaging widget and click on it to quick-view my new texts, then hit reply to enter the "quick-text" which pre-fills in the recipient.
The problem I'm having is that when I use Swype as the input method in this box, it seems to lag and sometimes puts spaces in the wrong places, or punctuation before a word (as opposed to after). It appears that what's happening is that I'll 'swype' a word, it will bring up the selection list, and I'll hit a period. Normally this would insert the first-selected word and then a period, but in the quick-text, it appears to enter the period before auto-selecting the word from the list. This also happens where it will type the first letter of a word, put a space, then the rest of the word combined with the following word. For example "how a reyou" shows up often. The overall response time of using Swype as input for this seems slow and laggy.
I'm just curious if anyone else has encountered this or if there's a fix.

I think I've seen a screenshot of someone's phone trying to type in Skype in the stock Moto messaging widget and having a ton of gibberish in the input box, so I don't think it's just your phone.

I guess I'm kinda glad about that. Hopefully they fix it. I've just been trying to avoid using it, but it's so convenient.

When I first started using swype I was having all kinds of spaces and lag. Now that I'm running launcher pro everything is running smooth and I haven't had any lag problems. I also messed with some of the settings for swype.
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Swype Beta is awesome!!

The new Swype Beta keyboard is freakin awesome. Kick that stock gs3 keyboard to the curb. Go here to get it.http://www.swype.com/get-swype/how-do-i-get-swype/ You have to register with your email address to download it . If you used the old version of swype on a different phone and didn't like it, you gotta try this. It's way better than the old swype. The word predictions are right on. It also has a voice record to text feature that works great.
you will have to enable "install apps from unknown sources" . System/security device administration , check "unknown sources".
I used to use touchpal keyboard on my epic4g because swype wasn't what i wanted. But this Swype is fantastic.
Hope you like it too. :good:

yeah in using Swype beta now. It's very nice just wish it has real time voice recognition capability like the stock keyboard.
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I've been using Swype for nearly three years, and this newest beta is definitely the best.
My only complaint is the backspace key. I can't adequately describe what bugs me about it, but it's definitely different from the previous releases.
Sometimes it deletes just the last letter, sometimes it deletes the entire word. This applies to holding the button, as well as tapping it.

GalaxysHeart said:
I've been using Swype for nearly three years, and this newest beta is definitely the best.
My only complaint is the backspace key. I can't adequately describe what bugs me about it, but it's definitely different from the previous releases.
Sometimes it deletes just the last letter, sometimes it deletes the entire word. This applies to holding the button, as well as tapping it.
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It might be a bug. It's still a beta release. i see what your talking about. I noticed that if I go back to edit after finisehed typeing, insert cursor, it'll delete one space at a time. But if i'm typing and decide to edit the last letter entered it'll delete the whole word. I'm gonna play with it to see if it's a setting.
I just figured it out. If the wod is underlined it deletes the whole word. If you push the space bar after the last word it'll backspace one space at a time. Give it a shot.

jdpdata said:
yeah in using Swype beta now. It's very nice just wish it has real time voice recognition capability like the stock keyboard.
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If it's not real time, it's pertty damn close. Did you push the little flame icon on the bottom right of the keyboard to record?

GalaxysHeart said:
I've been using Swype for nearly three years, and this newest beta is definitely the best.
My only complaint is the backspace key. I can't adequately describe what bugs me about it, but it's definitely different from the previous releases.
Sometimes it deletes just the last letter, sometimes it deletes the entire word. This applies to holding the button, as well as tapping it.
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Ditto the backspace key. You used to be able to long-press it to delete backwards by a word (instead of by letter), and the longer you pressed the faster it deleted words. But now, all it seems to do is delete letters. Not as useful.

zmore said:
Ditto the backspace key. You used to be able to long-press it to delete backwards by a word (instead of by letter), and the longer you pressed the faster it deleted words. But now, all it seems to do is delete letters. Not as useful.
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Works on mine. Unless you mean the Samsung Swype because it does delete one letter at a time? May want to double check that you have the Swype beta as the default.
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Nopi45 said:
Works on mine. Unless you mean the Samsung Swype because it does delete one letter at a time? May want to double check that you have the Swype beta as the default.
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I just double checked while writing this that long press ing backspace doesn't work like it used to. Way to sensitive too
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It seems if you Swype and then hit backspace it will delete the world of you peck out the word it fits a single letter.

Aridon said:
It seems if you Swype and then hit backspace it will delete the world of you peck out the word it fits a single letter.
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that almost makes sense. Since it was entered into the text box as a whole word, backspace deleted the whole word. If it's packed in one letter at a time, backspace deletes it that way.
As I said earlier, if you insert the cursor it will backspace one letter at a time.
I find the Swype action and prediction quite good.better than anything I've ever used. I hated Swype before this. The verbal translation is also very good.
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Xalky said:
It might be a bug. It's still a beta release. i see what your talking about. I noticed that if I go back to edit after finisehed typeing, insert cursor, it'll delete one space at a time. But if i'm typing and decide to edit the last letter entered it'll delete the whole word. I'm gonna play with it to see if it's a setting.
I just figured it out. If the wod is underlined it deletes the whole word. If you push the space bar after the last word it'll backspace one space at a time. Give it a shot.
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I kind of remember this happening with other versions of swype, haven't ran it on my gs 3 yet though.
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[Q] Slow keyboard auto-correct?

Hi all, my first post on here. I picked up my S4 last Friday (UK on Vodafone) and I've been loving it ever since, its a massive step forwards from my old HTC Desire.
Anyway, the only thing that's really bugging me so far is the stock keyboard auto-correct. I've got it set-up to auto-correct when I hit the space bar but I'm running into a problem, I'm typing too fast for the keyboard. For example I type "the" and hit space, yet auto-correct is still offering me "th" as it hasn't caught up so instead of "the" I get it auto-corrected to "th". If I slow down a little it works fine but this is missing the point.
I know I can switch the keyboard so SwiftKey, which I had on the HTC, but before I do that I wondered if there's a way to speed up the auto-correct?

can you tell me how you set it up to auto correct?
i came from the htc one and really liked the keyboard and the fact that it would auto correct most things but i find with the s4 that it gives me the a correct spelling of the word in blue above the keys but does not seem to insert it into the text ive written.
thanks

Yeah where's this option
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Settings, Language and Input, Samsung keyboard settings, enable Predictive Text then pick the Autoreplacement option

A mate has just tried using the "swipe" like input method on his S4, it makes the auto-correct lag issue look simple. Its so bad that its effectively unusable for quick text entry!

I've found it sometimes to be SLOW. as in , i type a whole word like KEYBOARD, and the predictive text didn't keep up and it replaced my word with "."
then sometimes, i've found the keyboard to be super QUICK!. not sure what the hell is going on.
This sounds like a bug. how do we notify samsung?
clearing the customized learning makes it REALLY QUICK, but then you lose your common words.
even you type a word in like KEYBOARD carefully and slowly it will replace it with its default word...
stupid really. if i typed it in slower and careful, i dont want it to be replaced.

+++ SwiftKey +++

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+++ SwiftKey +++
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Yeah, I'm back on SwiftKey now and its much faster. But I like the Samsung keyboard, specifically having the numbers as separate keys above the QWERTY 'board. Oh well, I guess I'll have to see if the software update has made any difference

robpc said:
Settings, Language and Input, Samsung keyboard settings, enable Predictive Text then pick the Autoreplacement option
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I have no autoreplacement option. AT&T SGS4.

Software behind the hardware keyboard

So I have found the keyboard to be somewhat fraustrating. Not because it is virtual, but because of the software behind it.
First of all, it is rather strange that you cannot set more than one keybaord. Essentially, the device can have two keyboards that you might regularly swap between: the hardware keyboard and the one screen keyboard one might use while in tablet mode. The hardware keyboard uses the autocorrect of the keyboard you have set as your software keyboard. You cannot set seperate keyboard engines for the hardware and software keyboard.
As I said, the autocorrect/engine behind the hardware keyboard is dependant on your choice of software keybaord. However, as far as I can tell, only the defualt TouchPal keyboard provides any autocorrect for the hardware keybaord. The stock android keyboard offers no autocorrect with the hardware keyboard.
On a related note, TouchPal is awful. The autocorrect works pretty badly and is basically very annoying to use. I won't bore you with the details, but things like autocorrecting to a new word when you go back to edit a mistake. This makes it almost unusable.
Also the touch pad is very bad. No two funger scrolling means that again, it is pretty much useless.
I think the Yoga Book is a great device in most respects. Its intersting that all of these problems relate to the software and could potentially be fixed by Lenovo or there may even be fixes out there now.
Has anyone found any solutions to these problems? Thanks, Liam

I completely agree with you and am having the same frustration with the software behind the keyboard. So far the best solution I have found is to use SwiftKey or Swiftkey Beta (not sure which is best yet). With a bit of tweaking you can get decent auto complete and auto correct using both the halo and on screen keyboard. Much better than Touchpal at least. A couple of issues I have found using Swiftkey and halo keyboard: 1) auto complete seems to turn off when resuming from sleep mode (tapping the keyboard button on the top row reactivates it) 2) in WhatsApp Tablet app, after pressing Enter to send a message, the next message gets double words - I. E. Auto correct adds to what you type, doesn't replace it.

I can confirm that switching to SwiftKey makes the hardware keyboard usable! I'm actually using the keyboard to type this now. Naturally, I'm making tons of mistakes but it is catching and correcting almost all of them!
Can confirm that SwiftKey easily switches between physical keyboard and on-screen keyboard when the physical keyboard is toggled on and off.
If anyone is still using the default software keyboard, switch now!!!

Thanks for the tip! This makes a big difference! Have either of you found a way to get auto capitalise to work? The setting is enabled but it doesn't do anythig.

My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?

faeArai said:
My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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I have found that SwiftKey enters the main suggested word when I press space. This is good for most of the time, but annoying when:
-I want to select a suggestion that is not the main suggested word (particularly a new word that it doesn't recognise)
-I want to add punctuation directly after the main suggested word (here, because I input the punctuation rather than pressing space, the suggested word is not entered)
I have certainly found using SwiftKey to be the best experience. It's quite a passive autocorrect that doesn't get in the way too much. I got so sick of TouchPal which really gets in your face with its incorrect predictions.
But still there is a lot of room for improvement. It's such a shame that it's terrible software that lets down this keyboard. In particular I don't understand why:
- Some keyboards (like the Google Keyboard) don't offer any correction or prediction when enabled. Does Android maybe treat the Halo keyboard as an external keyboard (which I suppose you wouldn't want predictive features for)?
- Keyboards that do offer prediction don't seem to respond to changes to their settings (I can't get SwiftKey to auto capitalise the first letter of a sentence for example). @thespinner02 mentioned tweaking with SwiftKey settings- I assume they meant for the onscreen keyboard because these settings don't do anything for the Halo keybaord.
I wonder whether there is a keyboard out there in the Play Store that works better with the Yoga Book. I'll try a few and let you guys know if I find one.

I tried several solutions but couldn't find anything good. Hardware keyboards are not that common on Android platform, I guess.

Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.

thespinner02 said:
Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Thanks! I didn't notice that- smart spacing etc makes a massive difference!
Pretty much my only problem with SwiftKey now is that it sometimes creates its own weird textbook instead of typing directly into the text field. But that's not a massive problem.
Also I sometimes accidentally change input method. Maybe I'm using a keyboard shortcut by mistake?

thespinner02 said:
Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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In settings for hardware keyword I get no harder key found?
Went into Swift settings in onscreen. How to get settings for Halo?

With Yoga Book in laptop mode. Settings / Language & input / SwiftKey Keyboard / Typing / Voice & Other Input

You also need to make sure 'show input method' is not enabled in the keyboard settings/selector popup.
Does anyone else experience a problem with SwiftKey where in some text fields your text goes into a little popup text box at the bottom of the screen as well as the intended text field? And then to get rid of the popup text box you have to tap 'next'. This occurs in the Facebook messenger app for example.
Any way to disable it?
It seems to do this when the text field is small, but other keyboards just expend the text field as you type. The popup text box it creates doesn't expand anyway, so it doesn't offer extra functionality and is just an annoyance.

LG keyboard word prediction saves every typo

Exactly as the title states. It saves junk text. Every little typo I make, this keyboard saves it. Typos such as "youbwill" ..It's all in there, and I can't seem to figure out how to GET RID of just those stupid words.
If there is a way to delete ONLY those words, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.

THE-COPS said:
Exactly as the title states. It saves junk text. Every little typo I make, this keyboard saves it. Typos such as "youbwill" ..It's all in there, and I can't seem to figure out how to GET RID of just those stupid words.
If there is a way to delete ONLY those words, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.
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If you press and hold on the wrong prediction does it give you an option to delete it?

Holding on a word only makes it highlight, until your finger is removed. If you hold your finger on the center word, it opens up to a list of alternative word choices. There is no press and hold action on those.
I find it odd that the center word is always the current typed word. In normal word prediction, the center word is almost always the correct word for misspellings and next word prediction.
Oh, I checked the personal dictionary. It was empty.

Did u ever find a solution? Typing on this keybiard is driving me crazy. It mever corrects ckearly words... Haha. You get the idea. Fir isca common one... And many many more. If you click on the wrong word it does not give an option to delete! Aaargh

go to settings, system, language & input, on-screen keyboard, lg keyboard, word suggestions., then hit clear suggestion history and update word word suggestions